LAT 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Sallust: The Jugurthine War

4 credits (Fall)

Sallust’s historical monograph, Bellum Iugurthinum, narrates Rome’s war, in 111-105 BCE, against Jugurtha, king of Numidia (modern Algeria). We will examine Roman imperial policy on the North African frontier in the later Republic, the influence of social class on the politics of war in Rome as talented men of lower social rank challenged the traditional hold of aristocrats on high office, and Sallust’s conception of human nature and historial causation.

Prerequisite: LAT 222, LAT 225, or placement into 300 level Latin.
Instructor: Cummins